Kabok is a ‘rhino town’. The hidden village on the western border of Mozambique is one of the strongholds for rhino poachers. They earn hundreds of thousands euro’s with the trade in horns of killed rhino’s in South Africa. They are almost untouchable. Nor the army, nor the police can arrest the gang leaders.

Poachers hacked a baby rhino many times with axes and machetes. The infant rhino got too close to the poachers who were cutting off her mother’s horn after that rhino was killed in South Africa near Mokopane.

The wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre SanWild in South Africa runs a very effective growing rhino protection program to ensure the safety of a number of rhinos on private land. The program is simple, effective and runs with militairy precision. The objective is to keep individual rhino safe and alive, no matter what the cost.

At an auction in the province of Zeeland the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (nVWA) seized 2 rhino horns. The Belgian owner wanted to sell the rhino horns through an auction in the Netherlands.

Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and Angola are heading for a collision with rhino conservationists after it emerged that their governments had agreed to the sale of rhino horn powder in clinics and pharmacies.

LIVINGSTONE, ZAMBIA—African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is celebrating the birth of a white rhino in Zambia’s Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, a major conservation milestone in a region devastated by rampant rhino poaching.

Rhino experts say there is a new trend emerging in relation to rhino poaching. Increasingly, criminal syndicates usually associated with more hardened crimes like drug trafficking and vehicle theft are turning to rhino poaching.